Provide an application a user can run from their existing fedora system which will depsolve all the pkgs they need to update
to the next fedora release, download the pkgs, download the initrd and kernel, download a stage2 image, put them in place in the user's grub.conf and allow them to reboot into them to complete their update using anaconda.

It means that the boring and tedious part of an anaconda-based upgrade is done while the user is doing other things and while their computer is still useful to them. Then the update can go quickly and without pain while also allowing us to do proper upgrades using anaconda.

We get all the advantages of an anaconda update w/o the user having to wait or download and burn a cd or muck about with grub etc.

!JoAnne wants to upgrade her machine from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. She runs the Fedora Online Upgrade Tool, which analyzes her system and begins downloading all the files and packages necessary for the upgrade. She can still use her system while it downloads all the packages. When it finishes, it offers to reboot the system to begin the upgrade.

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